{"id":165210,"date":"2025-12-03T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/165210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:57:07","slug":"spirit-animal-raccoon-gets-drunk-as-a-skunk-in-a-booze-store-and-sleeps-off-hangover-in-the-toilet-offbeat-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/165210\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit animal: Raccoon gets drunk as a skunk in a booze store – and sleeps off hangover in the toilet | Offbeat News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A raccoon has gotten as drunk as a skunk.<\/p>\n

On a wild Friday night, the trash panda broke into a liquor store in Virginia – and began helping themselves to the stock.<\/p>\n

The following morning, an officer was asked to investigate reports of a break-in\u2026 and wasn’t prepared for what happened next.<\/p>\n

She was greeted by a soaked aisle that reeked of booze and was littered with smashed bottles.<\/p>\n

Spirits were the tipple of choice – this wasn’t a wine racc.<\/p>\n

Officer Martin’s inquiries soon took her to the bathroom, where she discovered the raucous raccoon sleeping it off in between a toilet and a bin.<\/p>\n

The sozzled suspect was rumbled and described as “very intoxicated” by Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter.<\/p>\n

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A Facebook statement said: “Officer Martin safely secured our masked bandit and transported him back to the shelter to sober up before questioning.<\/p>\n

“After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer.”<\/p>\n

The spirit animal has now been barred – and unfortunately, there’s no CCTV footage of him getting completely pawless.<\/p>\n

Why? Because he entered the building through the ceiling\u2026 and took the camera down with him.<\/p>\n

The store has thanked Officer Martin for “providing our visitor with a sober ride home” after he racked up a substantial bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A raccoon has gotten as drunk as a skunk. On a wild Friday night, the trash panda broke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-165210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}